History as MysteryCity Lights Publishers, 22. avg. 2016 - 304 strani In a lively challenge to mainstream history, Michael Parenti does battle with a number of mass-marketed historical myths. He shows how history's victors distort and suppress the documentary record in order to perpetuate their power and privilege. And he demonstrates how historians are influenced by the professional and class environment in which they work. Pursuing themes ranging from antiquity to modern times, from the Inquisition and Joan of Arc to the anti-labor bias of present-day history books, History as Mystery demonstrates how past and present can inform each other and how history can be a truly exciting and engaging subject. "Michael Parenti, always provocative and eloquent, gives us a lively as well as valuable critique of orthodoxy posing as 'history.'"—Howard Zinn, author of A People's History of the United States "Deserves to become an instant classic."—Bertell Ollman, author of Dialectical Investigations "Those who keep secret the past, and lie about it, condemn us to repeat it. Michael Parenti unveils the history of falsified history, from the early Christian church to the present: a fascinating, darkly revelatory tale."—Daniel Ellsberg, author of The Pentagon Papers "Solid if surely controversial stuff."—Kirkus |
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... from Haymarket to Attica to the redwoods of California ripped whole from our hearts, erased from official memory . . . —John Ross, “Against Amnesia” CONTENTS PROLOGUE: AGAINST THE MAINSTREAM 1 HISTORY AS MISEDUCATION Mainstream.
... Official History 7 AGAINST PSYCHOPOLITICS Depoliticizing the Political Dubious Clinical Data Lenin as Oedipus The Compulsive Hoover The Political Hoover When the Political Becomes Personal Afterword PROLOGUE: AGAINST THE MAINSTREAM The ...
... officials, and news and entertainment media, a mass miseducation that xi begins in childhood and continues throughout life. What we usually are taught “is not 'reality' but a particular version of it,”2 a version that must pass muster ...
... official justification for U.S. involvement in Indochina (“containing Communist aggression” and “protecting democracy”). The judgment they invited on the war invariably concerned tactics rather than purposes. Through their pretensions ...
... officials across the nation attempted to impose ideologically correct views upon their faculty. Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Columbia University, explicitly forbade faculty from criticizing the war, arguing that such heresy was ...